October 26th, 1944

Born on October 26th, 1944

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What happened on October 26th, 1944?

October 26th, 1944

World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf

What else happened on October 26th?

October 26th, 1871

Liberian president Edward James Roye (pictured) was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.

October 26th, 2001

President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law (pictured), significantly expanding the authority of United States law enforcement agencies.

October 26th, 2000

Following protests against military leader Robert Guéï, Laurent Gbagbo became the president of Ivory Coast.

October 26th, 1977

Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease.

October 26th, 1955

The first buildings in the sacred Oyasato-yakata complex of the Japanese new religious movement Tenrikyo in Tenri, Nara, were completed.

October 26th, 1921

The Chicago Theatre (pictured), the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opened.

October 26th, 1905

The Saint Petersburg Soviet held its first meeting, becoming the first elected body in Russia to represent workers.

October 26th, 1902

A group of Russian explorers led by Baron von Toll left their camp on Bennett Island and disappeared without a trace.

October 26th, 1892

Ida B. Wells (pictured) began to publish her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.

October 26th, 1813

War of 1812: British forces and Mohawk allies under Charles de Salaberry repulsed an American attempt to invade Canada.

October 26th, 1597

Japanese invasions of Korea: Thirteen Korean ships commanded by Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeated a far larger Japanese invading fleet at the Battle of Myeongnyang in the Myeongnyang Strait.

October 26th, 1341

The Byzantine army proclaimed chief minister John VI Kantakouzenos emperor, triggering a civil war between his supporters and those of John V Palaiologos, the heir to the throne.

October 26th, 2015

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.

October 26th, 2012

Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made it available on new PCs.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 26th

Born on October 26th, 1944

79

Fernando Ortiz Arana

Mexican politician

*October 26th, 1944, Santiago de Querétaro

79

Angelika Waller

German actress

*October 26th, 1944, Niederer Fläming

79

Leta Semadeni

Swiss author

*October 26th, 1944, Scuol

79

Martin Jellinghaus

German athlete

*October 26th, 1944, Lauf an der Pegnitz

79

Kenneth Ascher

American musician

*October 26th, 1944, Washington, D.C.

70

Jim McCann

Irish musician (1944-2015)

*October 26th, 1944, Dublin †March 5th, 2015, Howth

73

Jürg Altherr

Swiss sculptor and landscape architect (1944-2018)

*October 26th, 1944, Zürich †June 1st, 2018

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Who's birthday is on October 26th?

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

71

Bob Hoskins

English actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

79

Tilo Prückner

German actor and author

*October 26th, 1940, Augsburg †July 2nd, 2020, Berlin

90

Diana Ingro

Argentinian actress

*October 26th, 1926, Ramos Mejía †March 23rd, 2017, Buenos Aires

29

Melati Daeva Oktavianti

Indonesian badminton player

*October 26th, 1994, Serang City

64

Evo Morales

President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019

*October 26th, 1959, Oruro

67

Rita Wilson

American actress, singer and producer

*October 26th, 1956, Hollywood

50

Seth MacFarlane

American writer, actor, and producer (born 1973)

*October 26th, 1973, Kent

69

D. W. Moffett

American actor

*October 26th, 1954, Highland Park

79

François Mitterrand

21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995

*October 26th, 1916, Jarnac †January 8th, 1996, 7th arrondissement of Paris

77

Maureen Anderman

American actress

*October 26th, 1946, Detroit

60

Leon Trotsky

Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

*October 26th, 1879, Bereslavka †August 21st, 1940, Coyoacán

64

François Chau

Cambodian American actor

*October 26th, 1959, Phnom Penh

69

Holly Woodlawn

Puerto Rican actress and former Warhol superstar

*October 26th, 1946, Juana Díaz †December 6th, 2015, Los Angeles

70

Carl Koldewey

German explorer (1837-1908)

*October 26th, 1837, Bücken †May 17th, 1908, Hamburg

62

Uhuru Kenyatta

4th President of Republic of Kenya (2013–2022)

*October 26th, 1961, Nairobi

41

Nicola Adams

British boxer

*October 26th, 1982, Leeds

52

Anthony Rapp

American actor

*October 26th, 1971, Chicago

51

Hamdi Ulukaya

Kurdish-Turkish businessman

*October 26th, 1972, Erzincan

69

James Pickens

American actor

*October 26th, 1954, Cleveland

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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